The name no longer means much to many people. Yet it appears in the records of the Games of the VIII Olympiad. On August 25, 1926, at four o’clock in the afternoon, a 24-year-old lieutenant in the Gendarmerie d’Haïti died at the Hospice Saint-François de Sales in Port-au-Prince. Two summers earlier, he had been the top scorer on a Haitian team that reached an Olympic podium. Exactly 100 years after his death, collective memory has retained Sylvio Cator, silver medalist in the long jump in Amsterdam in 1928. It has forgotten Ludovic Augustin.

The target shooting events at the Paris Games were held in Mourmelon, which hosted the 400-, 600- and 800-meter shooting events as well as the 25-meter silhouette pistol event. It was there, on June 26 and 27, that the team free rifle competition took place: 88 shooters, 18 countries, five men per team, 30 shots each, 10 at each distance, for a possible total of 750 points, according to the Olympedia database. The United States won with 676 points. Haiti and France finished behind them in a perfect tie, with 646 points each. The tiebreaker gave the silver to the French and the bronze to the Haitians. The latter, Olympedia further notes, had held second place for almost the entire competition and were only caught in the final series.